Jeremiah 2:20–24

20 “Long ago you broke off your yokeg

and tore off your bonds;h

you said, ‘I will not serve you!’i

Indeed, on every high hillj

and under every spreading treek

you lay down as a prostitute.l

21 I had plantedm you like a choice vinen

of sound and reliable stock.

How then did you turn against me

into a corrupt,o wild vine?

22 Although you washp yourself with soapq

and use an abundance of cleansing powder,

the stain of your guilt is still before me,”

declares the Sovereign Lord.r

23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;s

I have not run after the Baals’?t

See how you behaved in the valley;u

consider what you have done.

You are a swift she-camel

runningv here and there,

24 a wild donkeyw accustomed to the desert,x

sniffing the wind in her craving—

in her heat who can restrain her?

Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;

at mating time they will find her.